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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by adventured on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:18AM (#15859478)
You don't think a tripling of acid attacks, a 20% increase in violent offenses, a 24% increase in knife attacks, a 42% jump in gun offenses - all in such a short amount of time, amounts to a wave of crime?
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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by pjc50 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:31AM (#15859778)
The acid attacks seem to have been a consequence of loosening regulations on acid sales: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-aci...
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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by msg3 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:24AM (#15859514)
No.
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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by adventured on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:44AM (#15859585)
Please enlighten as to what would qualify as a wave of crime then, in your opinion.

A 600% increase in acid attacks? A 200% increase in gun offenses? A 70% increase in knife crimes?

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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by Richs99 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:57AM (#15859639)
A 600% increase in what was a tiny number to start with is not a "crime wave"
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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by adventured on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:22AM (#15859744)
~500 acid attacks annually in London, growing as rapidly as it has been the last three years, is not a tiny number nor a trivial matter.

London has a lot of knife crime. A 24% increase in such a short amount of time is not a tiny increase in that either.

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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by toomanybeersies on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:52AM (#15860127)
So from 80, to 500, in a population of almost 9 million?

That's not to mention that we need to look at numbers in a long term trend, looking at 1 or 2 years of data doesn't show the full story.

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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by msg3 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:14AM (#15859957)
Something not based on cherry-picking statistics.
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